The publication is an anthology of currently inaccessible texts by thirty-four representatives of the Ukrainian avant-garde: artists who act as critics and scholars; art critics who act as analysts and conceptualists; poets and writers who act as creators and analysts of contemporary art forms. The reader receives a thematic, personal, and worldview diversity of views on the creative “ordering” of art form in Ukrainian visual art of the 1910s–1930s, will be able to plunge into the whirlpool of creative disputes, the struggle of ambitions and the settlement of approaches, a kaleidoscope of multidirectional searches for artistic truth and solitude in the social inevitability of historical events. The genre set of presented texts — from a certain pastorality of journalistic articles to the sharpness of manifestos and sometimes angry desperation of discussions — forms a stereoscopic sketch of the then currents and groups in all the complexity, inconsistency, and therefore the poignancy of the proclaimed positions.

The anthology is designed for a wide range of connoisseurs of Ukrainian art of the avant-garde era.